Allied Warships

USS Milwaukee (CL 5)

Light cruiser of the Omaha class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Light cruiser
Class	Omaha
Pennant	CL 5
Built by	Todd Shipbuilding & DryDock Co. (Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	13 Dec 1918
Launched	24 Mar 1922
Commissioned	20 Jun 1923
End service	20 Apr 1944
History	Transferred on loan to Soviet Union on 20 April 1944 renamed Murmansk. Returned back to the U.S.N. on 16 March 1949. Decommissioned and stricken 18 March 1949. Sold for scrap 10 December 1949 to American Shipbreakers, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware.
Career notes	To the USSR as Murmansk

Commands listed for USS Milwaukee (CL 5)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Forrest Betton Royal, USN	Oct 1941	28 Nov 1942 (1)
2	Capt. Jacob Harry Jacobson, USN	28 Nov 1942	1 Jul 1943 (1)
3	Charles Frederick Fielding, USN	1 Jul 1943	20 Apr 1944

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Sources

http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/005/04005.htm

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